Articles Tagged ‘HOP!’

At the fourth time of asking, Krakow Airport finally won its first ever Arch of Triumph award last week. The airport’s fire crew even let their CO and CEO share in their fine victory! Nine more airports battle it out for the world’s biggest airport firefighting accolade this week.

Serving the capital of Corsica, Ajaccio Airport has seen its annual traffic grow by 39% during the past decade, with traffic for 2016 (January-November) up 4.3%. The biggest development however is in the low-cost market, which now contributes 26% of the airport’s passengers. To learn more about traffic development of this year’s CONNECT conference host, […]

Air Corsica is based at the Corsican airport of Ajaccio, and it is the official carrier of CONNECT 2017. anna.aero caught up with the airline’s Hervé Pierret, Member of Management Board, to find out more about its operation and to see why it is so keen to expand its international presence.

We look back at the last decade and see how market shares have shifted in the French domestic market. Plus an analysis of the growth in traffic on the leading regional French domestic routes as LCCs have made their presence felt since 2008.

Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software has unearthed that in the last year 25,000 potential travellers hunted for flights between Lille and Rome ‒ but the route is unserved! There are four potential carriers which could make this route work – HOP!, Alitalia, Ryanair or Vueling – who will react first to this Skyscanner data?

The original French Connection is unconnected! Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software shows that in the last year 170,000 potential travellers searched for flights between Marseille and the Big Apple ‒ but the route is unserved! With 30 European destinations from its New York Newark hub already, will United Airlines start Marseille next?

During the past year Prague has done something that most modest sized airports outside of Asia have as their number one aim – gaining a link to China. However, the airport has also seen developments in other long-haul markets as well as its new Chinese links. anna.aero takes a look at the airport’s traffic trends, […]

Air France is still clinging on to having more than 50% of seats and frequencies at its main Paris CDG hub, despite the LCC onslaught. Seven years since our data elves last looked under the hood at the SkyTeam carrier’s biggest operations, they check the oil and kick the tyres again.

In this week’s Network Planning Community News, Birmingham Airport welcomes the arrival of Iberia Express while HOP! inaugurates flights between Rennes and Amsterdam. More news also from Malaga, London Luton, Leeds Bradford, John C. Tune and Calgary airports as well as Norwegian.

A football philosopher once said: “A win is a win is a win.” Wise words that also apply in the Arch of Triumph competition – particularly when there are only two entrants. And just like football…FTWAs are a game of two halves.